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Dr. Adel W. Sadek

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Dr. Sadek serves as the Director of UB’s Transportation Systems Engineering Lab and Acting Chair of UB2020’s Strategic Strength in Extreme Events. Before joining UB in 2008 to lead the development of the department’s interdisciplinary program in transportation systems engineering, Dr. Sadek was an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Vermont (UVM), and held a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He also served as co-Director of UVM’s Complex Systems Center.

Dr. Sadek is the recipient of the 1998 Milton Pikarsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of Transportation Science and Technology, awarded by the Council of University Transportation Centers, a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, and a 2011 IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award. He is coauthor of two Transportation textbooks, along with more than 80 papers in peer-refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings.

Education
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering (Transportation)
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Master of Science, Civil Engineering (Transportation)
  • University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
Projects
Title Sponsor(s)
A Prototype Decision Support System for Optimally Routing Border Crossing Traffic Based on Predicted Border Crossing Times Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Evaluation of Public-Private Partnership Contract Types for Roadway Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Preservation University Transportation Research Center (UTRC)
Exploring Novel Applications of Archived Transportation Data: Predicting Freeway Crash Risk, Border Crossing Delay and Inclement Weather Impacts Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
IIMS Staten Island Web and Smartphone Development, Deployment and Evaluation New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)


Publications
Title Publication Type
Evaluation of Public-Private Partnership Contract Types for Roadway Construction, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation Final Report
Integrated Incident Management System (IIMS) Web Client Application Development, Deployment and Evaluation: An Evaluation of a Potential IIMS Deployment in Western New York Final Report
UTRC Research Initiative
Year Title
2011 A Prototype Decision Support System for Optimally Routing Border Crossing Traffic Based on Predicted Border Crossing Times
2015 Evaluation of Public-Private Partnership Contract Types for Roadway Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Preservation

Personal Information

Associate Professor
Adel W.
Sadek
State University of New York (SUNY)
asadek@buffalo.edu
(716) 645-4367
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